Shanghai camera manufacturing museum

[Julio1fer]

A museum opens June 9 in Shanghai. One of the exhibits is an assembly post for a Seagull TLR.  Have to look for more info on this one, it will probably sprout a web site at some point.

[shadowfox]

How cool!
I wish this museum were open when I visited Shanghai in 2010.

Local culture-wise, Shanghai seems to have quite a high regards of photography.
I bought two editions of Shanghai Photography magazines when I was there.

[melek]

Shanghai is really a happening place with great international flavor that you can see in the language, the architecture and in people's attitudes. It used to be the money center (in pre-Communist) China.

Shanghainese, to my Western ear, sounds a bit like Japanese.

I believe that a lot of old Shanghai has been torn down, which is sort of a shame. I was last there in 2002, and there were many buildings going up. I wandered around the old part of the city and found it to be very fascinating.

I bought a Chinese rangefinder of my trips. Phenix 205 or something like that. Think of a 1960s Japanese rangefinder.

It had an odd industrial odor, sort of like petroleum, that took about three years to dissipate. I bet I lost a couple of months off my life just smelling it.

[Julio1fer]

We should get Mr. Chen Haiwen to join this forum. He seems to have what is needed.

More information on this museum found in a Shanghai newspaper website. Seagull TLRs have started to be manufactured again in the museum, if I understand this piece.